Cooking apparatus



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COOKING APPARATUS Filed August 8, 1925 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 irlpularll all." lllpppllprr Inventor Dec. 14 1926.

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I w. GUY-PELL COOKING APPARATUS Filed August 8, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patent d Dec.' 14, 1926.

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-. 1 wILLIA enY-rnm, onnonnon, ENGLAND.

oooxine ArrAnATns;

A neatio mea August a, 1925, serial No. 48,941, an d'in Great Britain December 9, 1 924.

sates,

" I The value Of radiant heat for c oking tut-j rier taped to enable it a be freely moved poses'has been long known andit Wasat one time customary to roast in front of a l glowing fire, frequently with the aidof a a jack or spit for rotating the j ointor the like article of food; The introduction 'ofthe closetkitchenf range in the first place and I subsequently of. ranges heated by gas, ,etc,

has resulted in this method being practically abolished, ]food [being now" generally I roasted in an oven where the heat is not transmitted by radiation'but by conduction v I Fig. 2 is asectional'plan view thereof;

' Fig, 3 is'afront elevation of an adjustable,

and convectionj Q Y i VSo-called grillers have been proposed,

which make use of' vertically arrangedfand laterally displaced heating elements sometimes mounted on walls of" a chamber and capable with the latter of being separated to different extents so as to produce. aspace of varying size in'which the food is sus pended or supported so that it is heated; simultaneously from opposite sides. Such;

apparatus, however, as heretofore proposed, have not been in all respects satisfactory.

The object of; thepresent.invention is to:

provide cooking apparatus of this" type which is of wider application, more efii- .cient and more compact.

7 When the heating elements] are coveredf over or boxed-1n, there 1s a tendency-,when.

grilling for example, to cook quicker at the back which is closed, than at or towards the front which is open. I To overcome this difficulty and so secure a more uniform'cook ing, the heating'elements,whilst still dis-- posed vertically, are arranged in i'nclinati0n to each other instead ofbeing maintained.

in parallel. relation.- In other ,wor'cls, the distance separating-the heating elements-gin as Another feature of the present" invention,

when heating elements adaptedlto adjust A pipe employed to supply the fuel "so that;

the I elements may be r moved in "telescopic fashion. I 'A still further featureconsists infovere coming the drawbacks; connected with the heretofore'proposed means for the basting of joints, poultry and the like, the basting vessel to this, end being mounted in a car creases toward the back or assthe back wall is approached by the extended elements into and out of the casing of the apparatus.

The invention'also'provides for a complete Icooker'embodying all of the said' feature capablelof being variously used. 1

. The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention," f I In said drawings:

tures combined ina compartmental struc-v f 'Fig. 1 is a semidiagrammatic-front view,-

partlyin section, of a; gas fired'oven;

Fig. 5is a View showing a part of Fig. v

3 in sectionand on. alarger scale;land

Fig. 6 s a View similar to Fig. 3-, of a cooking oven with inclined andadjustable heating elements. I As shown in Figs 1 "and "2, two pairs of gas heated 'elements lf5 and 4 5 are employed side by side in compartment ,1

which is surmounted by I a warming compartmentf4 8 havingla .turndown front ,49

hinged at 50. Each of: these pairs of heat.

ing elementsiin this embodiment of the in vention is stationary, but the e'alemt'en'ts' '41:

5 (unlike thepairigtf 5? whichlisparallelto each other) are shown- 'inclined'fl so" that the distance T separating th em; increases from the front to the rear. This inclined arrangef'ment is of "course notconfined to a single pair of; heating elements I any number, 4 thusTarranged maybe employed? Between theinclined pair'of heating elements 4 runners tflfi forsupporting food are shown as carried by the' topfwall v If desired," the compartment for the heat} ing elements may be amere hood comprislng the three 'w'alls 58,159 and with'a top 55 and open at the front V Preferably a stovefaccording to the present invention is, as showniri Figs. 3.and 4,

provided with a lower co for w :7

roasting or grilling and upper compart- ,ments 2,, 3 the'compa'rtment 2 beingsay for roasting and baking and, the compartment I i :3 for baking, warming and the like. The,"

top of the compartment 3, may serve as va;

'hotplate' and for. such purpose be provided with a bodily removable cover (not shown). 1119 r The compartmentsl and 2 may have a com-' monjdoor 1 'whilst the compartment 3 hasg its own door 3 The food be either stationary or it may be rotatable; in the latter case a hook or eye 16 in the compart ment 2 is rotated bygearing 17 from'a clockwork motor 17 located. outside the oven. From the said hook or eye, the joint or the like can be hung in any suitable way. 18 is a small vessel'arranged in the chamber 2, containing fat. for basting the joint and carried by means which render it horizontally movable such for example as a swing arm 34:; Said vessel is shown fitted with anadjustable drip outlet in the form of an ordinary cock 35, in this way the vessel can bemore readily moved into and out of the casing, I v v The vertical heating ele'ments, which are denoted 'by the numeral 22 in Figs. 3 and t and-bythenumerals R5 in Figs. 1. and 2, maybe of any suitable type and arranged on any, of, the. w'ell known methods.

. Eachof the-heating elements. (showniin Fig. 5 as embodying a burner 28), ,isfconnected at -24 to a return tube25, an extension .26 of .Which is arranged to fit telescopicall'y within a mixing tube 27. If desired, each tube 25 may be fitted with a valve 28 by which eitheryheating element asa whole may be rendered inoperative.

The gas used may be that known 'as-coali gas,ornat,ural gas,-or carburetted air such as, is used in petrol motor engines, or otherwise Theadjustment of the two elements-may be done-either simultaneously or independently, theelements being unconnected with each other and therefore adapted to move separately.

In Fig.7 .6i the stove. is shown equipped with the inclined heatingelements 4 5 of Fig. l, which are neither limited. asto con struction nor to the gmedium employed to heat them, hich may be electric.

What I claim is: 1",. Anappar'atus for Y grilling, roasting and like purposes comprising incombination, an: enclosure embodying a base 'portion and a wall portion extending therefrom, a pair of heating elements vertically arranged upon said base portion 'with edges thereof spaced substantially widely elements,

apart'adjacent' said walliportion and extending laterally therefrom with opposite edges converging toward the front of the 2. An apparatus for grilling, roasting and like purposesembodying a base portion, -a wall portion extending therefrom, heating elements arranged upon said base portion with ends thereof spaced widely apart near. said: wall portion and laterally extended therefrom ,with ;opposite ends .con vergingv away-from .said wall portion so that the interveningspace thereb et'ween decreases as they recede from the aforesaid 1 wall portion, thereby equalizing the heating effect proceeding from one vertical edge of the elements to the other vertical edgetherB of, together with means for heating the heatingelements, substantially as described. a 3. An apparatus for grilling, roasting and like purposes comprising a chamber having a base portion, a pair of heating elements movably mounted and arranged over said baseportion with edges thereof spaced widely apart adjacent a wall of the chamber and extended laterally therefrom with opposite edges converging toward the front of the chamber, stationary .pipe through which the heating medium to be employed passes, and a rigid member movably associated with each .of the heating elements and connected atone end to said stationary pipe through which theheating medium is conducted from the latter to the heating element, substantially'as described. 7

l. An apparatus according to claim] 3 in which the stationary pipe is a gas mixing tube and the rigid members movable with the heating elements are v adapted to; lit telescopically within the mixing tube, sub stantially as described.

Signedat London, England, this 2st day of July, 1925. v t f j WILLIAM GUY-FELL. 

